Roughly what your state's unemployment insurance pays each week, and for how long.
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Open the Unemployment Benefit Estimate tool →Unemployment insurance is run by each state under its own law, so the weekly amount, the wage test and the number of weeks all depend on where you worked. Most states start from your base period: usually the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters before you file. Enter what you were paid in each of those four quarters, from your pay stubs or a W-2 split by quarter.
From there each state applies its own formula. Most divide the quarter you earned the most in by a fixed number and keep the result inside a weekly minimum and maximum. The total you can receive in a year is then capped, by a number of weeks, a share of your base-period wages, or both. The estimate shows which rule produced each figure.
Estimates cover only the states whose rules have been read from that state's own agency or statute. For any other state you will see no number at all, because a figure from a different state's formula would be wrong in a way you could not see.
This is an estimate from published rules applied to wages you entered. It is not a benefits-eligibility determination: only your state's unemployment agency decides whether you qualify and what you are paid, and it also looks at why the job ended and whether you are able and available to work.
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